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This RSS feed URL is deprecated, please update. New URLs can be found in the footers at https://news.google.com/newsThu, 22 Feb 2018 03:36:31 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x22 - GDPR: cinque pezzi facilihttp://api.spreaker.com/episode/14084608http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x22
Mancano ancora tre mesi, quindi di sicuro non possiamo avere raggiunto il picco delle affermazioni a vanvera sul GDPR, ma di sicuro ci stiamo provando.
Cinque cose facili da capire sul GDPR per cominciare a capirsi. (E due notiziole su Watson e DeepFakes)Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:26:45 +0000Bordermonitoring.EU: NEWSLETTER #1.2018http://bordermonitoring.eu/?p=2256http://bordermonitoring.eu/newsletter/2018/02/newsletter-1-2018/
Gerade veröffentlicht: Unser erster Newsletter in diesem Jahr. Der Newsletter kann hier abonniert werden.Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:40:32 +0000Dyne.org video channel: The Thinkers and Makers behind Dowseyt:video:wDLyYk_TQtIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLyYk_TQtI
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:42:34 +0000Vlax: Be ready to love : #Devuan ASCII 2.0.0-beta is out!https://diasp.org/p/8887006https://diasp.org/p/8887006
<h2>Be ready to love : <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/Devuan">#Devuan</a> ASCII 2.0.0-beta is out!</h2>
<h4>So what's new in Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta?</h4>
<ul>
<li><a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/OpenRC">#OpenRC</a> is installable using the expert install path (thanks Maemo Leste!)</li>
<li>eudev has replaced systemd-udev (thanks Gentoo!)</li>
<li>elogind has been added as an alternative to consolekit (thanks Gentoo!)</li>
<li>Desktop users can choose among fully functional XFCE (Default), KDE,
Cinnamon, LXQT, MATE, and LXDE desktops</li>
<li>CLI-oriented users can select the "Console productivity" task that installs
a fully-featured set of console-based utils and tools.</li>
<li>A .vdi disk image is now provided for use with VirtualBox.</li>
<li>ARM board kernels have been updated to 4.14 and 4.15 for most boards.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/README.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/README.txt</a></p>
<p><a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/dyne">#dyne</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/GNULinux">#GNULinux</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/system">#system</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/freesoftware">#freesoftware</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/dyne">#dyne</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/nosystemd">#nosystemd</a></p>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:04:29 +0000Bordermonitoring.EU: OVG Niedersachsen entscheidet gegen Abschiebung nach Bulgarienhttp://bordermonitoring.eu/?p=2249http://bordermonitoring.eu/bulgarien/2018/02/urteil-laut-niedersaechsischem-oberverwaltungsgericht-sind-abschiebungen-nach-bulgarien-unzulaessig/
Am 29.01.2018 stellte das Oberverwaltungsgericht Niedersachsen in einem Urteil fest: 1. Es ist mit Art. 3 EMRK unvereinbar, wenn sich ein Asylbewerber, der von staatlicher Unterstützung vollständig abhängig ist und sich in einer gravierenden Mangel- oder Notsituation befindet, staatlicher Gleichgültigkeit ausgesetzt sieht. 2. Eine solche Mangelsituation, der der bulgarische Staat nicht mit geeigneten Maßnahmen begegnet, … <a class="more-link" href="http://bordermonitoring.eu/bulgarien/2018/02/urteil-laut-niedersaechsischem-oberverwaltungsgericht-sind-abschiebungen-nach-bulgarien-unzulaessig/"><span class="screen-reader-text">OVG Niedersachsen entscheidet gegen Abschiebung nach Bulgarien</span> weiterlesen <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:56:09 +0000n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: webshit weeklyhttp://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/02/14/0/http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/02/14/0/
<p>An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of February, 2018. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html">Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 08, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334241">(comments)</a></span><br /> Google is excited about the progress they've made in their unending quest to ensure that trustworthiness is a quality that can only be ascribed by Google. Hackernews is disturbed at the idea that someone might be running arbitrary code in a web browser without HTTPS, which is the only possible way to determine if code should be run. One Hackernews figures out that browser vendors have effectively become the gatekeepers of all internet access, but everyone decides that there's nobody else qualified to do the job. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html">VLC 3.0 release</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 09, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16340741">(comments)</a></span><br /> A ragtag band of internet drifters releases some kind of weird offline YouTube clone that doesn't even have a messaging app built in. Hackernews celebrates the duration of the project development, but is miffed that it doesn't seem to work with Apple TV. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-talk.html">How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 10, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349897">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet posts an oral history of one of Google's legendary project management successes. Starting from open protocols and widely-understood software, Google slowly and steadily replaced every aspect of the program with unusable garbage. Hackernews spends a while disagreeing about which of Google's eighteen indistinguishable chat programs is best, then proceeds to list every single communications-related piece of software ever deployed. Everyone agrees that anything is better than email, which is why nobody on Hackernews has ever had an email account. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames/">Let’s talk about usernames</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 11, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16356397">(comments)</a></span><br /> A webshit lectures us about problems with keeping track of user accounts, almost all of which were directly caused by the garbage software the webshit has chosen to embrace. Border skirmishes break out between the Schlaueste Demokratische Republik and Союз Стандартизованных Социалистических Республик. When arguing about e-mail address parsing gets tiresome, Hackernews switches to optimizing InnoDB layout for looking up user IDs. One Hackernews writes a doctoral thesis about the injustice of unique usernames, and then has to defend it against a panel of Hackernews who are incapable of imagining any other approach. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-idUSKBN1FW1FI?il=0">German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 12, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16361614">(comments)</a></span><br /> Facebook, a webshit founded on the idea that everyone on Earth should upload all of their personal information to Facebook, begins development on a special edition of its software for the German market. Hackernews is fully aroused, since the only thing more alluring than bikeshedding a legal issue is bikeshedding a <i>foreign</i> legal issue. Even more delicious: bikeshedding <i>hypothetical</i> legal issues that <i>might</i> arise after the instantiation of an <i>upcoming</i> new law! When the orgy dies down, Hackernews lights a Marlboro and engages in pillow talk about how foolish the German government must be to clash with an organization with as many lawyers as Facebook has. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/amp-for-email-is-a-terrible-idea/">AMP for email is a terrible idea</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 13, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16372234">(comments)</a></span><br /> It is a period of civil war. Rebel Hackernews, striking from a hidden browser, have experienced their first disagreement with the evil Google Empire. During the comment thread, rebel Hackernews managed to object to secret plans for Google's ultimate weapon, AMP, a webshit protocol with enough lock-in to destroy an entire internet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, rebel Hackernews race online aboard their Macbooks, custodians of the stubborn objections that can save their protocols and restore freedom to the internet..... </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="http://waveforms.surge.sh/waveforms-intro">Let's Learn About Waveforms</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 14, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378458">(comments)</a></span><br /> A webshit posts a summary of that one week in high school your physics teacher talked about audio. Hackernews is so mesmerized by the moving colors and pretty sounds that they can barely incorrect each other about digital signal processing, so they spend some time trading webshit school lessons instead. </p>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 04:24:48 +0000Vlax: La página de Tails en españolhttps://diasp.org/p/8886956https://diasp.org/p/8886956
<h2>La página de Tails en español</h2>
<h3><a href="https://tails.boum.org/index.es.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tails.boum.org/index.es.html</a></h3>
<p>finalmente ya puedes consultar la documentación sobre <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/privacidad">#privacidad</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/gnupg">#gnupg</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/Tor">#Tor</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/softwarelibre">#softwarelibre</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/metadatos">#metadatos</a> etc.</p>
<p><a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/Tails">#Tails</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/l10n">#l10n</a> </p>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:33:55 +0000Informatic school is in southwest Cameroon: Deux jours inoubliableshttp://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/?p=1764http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/?p=1764
<h2>Deux jours inoubliables avec les étudiants de la Faculté de Génie</h2>
<p><span id="more-1764"></span></p>
<h2>Industriel, de l’Université de Douala au Cameroun.</h2>
<p><a href="https://tic-africa.blogspot.com/2018/02/2-jours-inoubliables-avec-les-etudiants.html"> https://tic-africa.blogspot.com/2018/02/2-jours-inoubliables-avec-les-etudiants.html</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cybervillageopenacademy/posts/340129003173288">https://www.facebook.com/cybervillageopenacademy/posts/340129003173288</a></p>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:02:12 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x21 - Nessun altrovehttp://api.spreaker.com/episode/14023987http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x21-it
Muore John Perry Barlow, ed è il segnale che l’epoca “eroica” di Internet deve finire.
L’epoca del sogno anarcoide che con la scusa del “liberi tutti” ha fatto di Internet un posto dove chiunque è libero di avere tutto lo spazio e la libertà che può comprarsi.Mon, 12 Feb 2018 05:10:04 +0000Dyne.org video channel: Devuan GNU+Linux presented at FSCONS 2016yt:video:wMvyOGawNwohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvyOGawNwo
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:11:38 +0000Museo dell Informatica funzionante: Data recovery from a BURNED EPROM? ;)https://museo.freaknet.org/?p=3449https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/
<img alt="" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="150" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1952.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" width="150" /><p>This is an experiment we made some months ago.</p>
<p>It’s about a damaged EPROM. It was inserted backwise into his socket, so it was burned. We saw it and we had an idea… </p>
<p>The EPROM was crack-opened by the owner. A microscope image show us that connections in +Vcc and Ground were interrupted. So EPROM wasn’t recognized by our instruments.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3450" style="width: 600px;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3450" data-recalc-dims="1" height="450" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1952.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1" width="600" />Immagine al microscopio ottico, che evidenzia le connessioni bruciate</figure>
<p>Our idea was to try reconnecting the pin to the pad into the silicon circuit, applying two tiny wires. </p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3451" data-recalc-dims="1" height="450" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5432.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1" width="600" /></p>
<p>Result wasn’t good on this EPROM: we can read it but the content is blanked out, maybe for the current spike as a result of the wrong insertion. We think is completely damaged. </p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3452" data-recalc-dims="1" height="450" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5444.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1" width="600" /></p>
<p>So we tried this test on another purposefully damaged EPROM… and we had a success: we did the pin connection, EPROM was succesfully red and we also were able to reprogram it <img alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/72x72/1f642.png" style="height: 1em;" /> </p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3454" data-recalc-dims="1" height="450" src="https://i2.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/readwrite-ok.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1" width="600" /></p>
<p>So we think this kind of data recovery from a burned EPROM is sometime profitable. <img alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/72x72/1f642.png" style="height: 1em;" /> </p>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_1952-2/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1952-1.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5430/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5430.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5431/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5431.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5432-2/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5432-1.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5433/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5433.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5435/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5435.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5436/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5436.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5437/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i2.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5437.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5441/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5441.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/2017-06-13-112254/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="240" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2017-06-13-112254.jpg?resize=320%2C240&amp;ssl=1" width="320" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5442/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i0.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5442.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5446/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i2.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5446.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5445/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5445.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5443/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i2.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5443.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/img_5444-2/"><img alt="" class="attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image" height="445" src="https://i2.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5444-1.jpg?resize=800%2C445&amp;ssl=1" width="800" /></a>
<p>L'articolo <a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en/data-recovery-from-burned-eprom/" rel="nofollow">Data recovery from a BURNED EPROM? ;)</a> sembra essere il primo su <a href="https://museo.freaknet.org/en" rel="nofollow">Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante</a>.</p>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:51:03 +0000n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: webshit weeklyhttp://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/02/07/0/http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/02/07/0/
<p>An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the first week of February, 2018. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data-leaks-by-stripping-path-information-in-http-referrers/">Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 01, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16286106">(comments)</a></span><br /> Mozilla half-asses another fundamental privacy feature. No explanation is given as to why users would want this protection only in specific circumstances, instead of, for instance, at all times everywhere. Hackernews initially wants this feature enabled full-time, but slowly realizes that this would deprive all their employers of delicious customer data. After some debate, they decide that advertising agencies are insurmountable opponents and only the government can save them. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/">Family fun with deepfakes</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 02, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291078">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet posts a deep dive into a supremely creepy hobby. Hackernews has a nice chuckle at the people who think creepy hobbies are anything but the natural progression of human society toward the ultimate utopia where nobody can trust any of their senses. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/chrome-adblocker">How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 03, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16297550">(comments)</a></span><br /> A webshit guesses about how a web browser works and complains that the ad agency which makes the browser isn't helpful enough about blocking ads. Hackernews writes, and then bikesheds, science fiction about possible malfeasance on the part of the ad agency. Another Hackernews figures out that the ad agency is only enabling the blocker on sites that don't comply with the "recommendations" of a cartel operated by the ad agency. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://medium.com/actualize-network/modern-css-explained-for-dinosaurs-5226febe3525">Modern CSS Explained</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 04, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306371">(comments)</a></span><br /> A webshit posts a brief history of the crayons that webshits use to scribble on your browser. Hackernews, unsatisified with the pedantry of the original article, argues about the etymology of various keywords. The rest of the comments are various Hackernews expressing relief that CSS has evolved past all of this box-model garbage to the platonic ideal of just using <s>tables</s> grids for everything. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb/exclusive-u-s-consumer-protection-official-puts-equifax-probe-on-ice-sources-idUSKBN1FP0IZ#ref">U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 05, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308961">(comments)</a></span><br /> The United States government continues the war against its own users. Hackernews is utterly outraged at the idea that some corporation somewhere can track and monitor their activity without express consent and then aggregate that data and then market predictive services to third parties based on that data <i>even if that corporation is not based in Silicon Valley</i>. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/06/spacexs-historic-falcon-heavy-successfully-launches/?ncid=rss&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 06, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16319505">(comments)</a></span><br /> Tesla finally launches a product as advertised. Hackernews, based on Youtube videos, reverse-engineers a spacecraft down to the metallurgical level and then sagely debates the maintenance characteristics of an aircraft that exited service before any of them learned to read and none of them have seen in operation, mostly derived from blog posts by people they're pretty sure knew a guy. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/">Designing Windows 95’s User Interface</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">February 07, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323105">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet posts someone else's paper, reformatted and surrounded by advertisements, "so it’s not lost altogether," instead of just uploading it to archive.org. Hackernews lauds the vision and genius of the user interfaces they are all employed to poorly reimplement in bespoke, incompatible javascript. Hackernews bemoans the hubris and shortsightedness of the user interfaces someone else was employed to poorly implement in bespoke, incompatible GUI toolkits. </p>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 04:46:42 +0000Andy Wingo: design notes on inline caches in guilehttp://wingolog.org/2018/02/07/design-notes-on-inline-caches-in-guilehttp://wingolog.org/archives/2018/02/07/design-notes-on-inline-caches-in-guile
<div><p>Ahoy, programming-language tinkerfolk! Today's rambling missive chews the gnarly bones of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching">"inline caches"</a>, in general but also with particular respect to the <a href="https://gnu.org/s/guile">Guile</a> implementation of Scheme. First, a little intro.</p><p><b>inline what?</b></p><p>Inline caches are a language implementation technique used to accelerate polymorphic dispatch. Let's dive in to that.</p><p>By <i>implementation technique</i>, I mean that the technique applies to the language compiler and runtime, rather than to the semantics of the language itself. The effects on the language do exist though in an indirect way, in the sense that inline caches can make some operations faster and therefore more common. Eventually inline caches can affect what users expect out of a language and what kinds of programs they write.</p><p>But I'm getting ahead of myself. <i>Polymorphic dispatch</i> literally means "choosing based on multiple forms". Let's say your language has immutable strings -- like Java, Python, or Javascript. Let's say your language also has operator overloading, and that it uses <tt>+</tt> to concatenate strings. Well at that point you have a problem -- while you can specify a terse semantics of some core set of operations on strings (win!), you can't choose one representation of strings that will work well for all cases (lose!). If the user has a workload where they regularly build up strings by concatenating them, you will want to store strings as trees of substrings. On the other hand if they want to access <s>characters</s>codepoints by index, then you want an array. But if the codepoints are all below 256, maybe you should represent them as bytes to save space, whereas maybe instead as 4-byte codepoints otherwise? Or maybe even UTF-8 with a codepoint index side table.</p><p>The right representation (form) of a string depends on the myriad ways that the string might be used. The <tt>string-append</tt> operation is <i>polymorphic</i>, in the sense that the precise code for the operator depends on the representation of the operands -- despite the fact that the <i>meaning</i> of <tt>string-append</tt> is monomorphic!</p><p>Anyway, that's the problem. Before inline caches came along, there were two solutions: callouts and open-coding. Both were bad in similar ways. A callout is where the compiler generates a call to a generic runtime routine. The runtime routine will be able to handle all the myriad forms and combination of forms of the operands. This works fine but can be a bit slow, as all callouts for a given operator (e.g. <tt>string-append</tt>) dispatch to a single routine for the whole program, so they don't get to optimize for any particular call site.</p><p>One tempting thing for compiler writers to do is to effectively inline the <tt>string-append</tt> operation into each of its call sites. This is "open-coding" (in the terminology of the early Lisp implementations like MACLISP). The advantage here is that maybe the compiler knows something about one or more of the operands, so it can eliminate some cases, effectively performing some compile-time specialization. But this is a limited technique; one could argue that the whole point of polymorphism is to allow for generic operations on generic data, so you rarely have compile-time invariants that can allow you to specialize. Open-coding of polymorphic operations instead leads to code bloat, as the <tt>string-append</tt> operation is just so many copies of the same thing.</p><p>Inline caches emerged to solve this problem. They trace their lineage back to Smalltalk 80, gained in complexity and power with Self and finally reached mass consciousness through Javascript. These languages all share the characteristic of being dynamically typed and object-oriented. When a user evaluates a statement like <tt>x = y.z</tt>, the language implementation needs to figure out where <tt>y.z</tt> is actually located. This location depends on the representation of <tt>y</tt>, which is rarely known at compile-time.</p><p>However for any given reference <tt>y.z</tt> in the source code, there is a finite set of concrete representations of <tt>y</tt> that will actually flow to that call site at run-time. Inline caches allow the language implementation to specialize the <tt>y.z</tt> access for its particular call site. For example, at some point in the evaluation of a program, <tt>y</tt> may be seen to have representation R1 or R2. For R1, the <tt>z</tt> property may be stored at offset 3 within the object's storage, and for R2 it might be at offset 4. The inline cache is a bit of specialized code that compares the type of the object being accessed against R1 , in that case returning the value at offset 3, otherwise R2 and offset r4, and otherwise falling back to a generic routine. If this isn't clear to you, Vyacheslav Egorov write a <a href="http://mrale.ph/blog/2012/06/03/explaining-js-vms-in-js-inline-caches.html">fine article describing and implementing the object representation optimizations enabled by inline caches</a>.</p><p>Inline caches also serve as input data to later stages of an adaptive compiler, allowing the compiler to selectively inline (open-code) only those cases that are appropriate to values actually seen at any given call site.</p><p><b>but how?</b></p><p>The classic formulation of inline caches from Self and early V8 actually patched the code being executed. An inline cache might be allocated at address <tt>0xcabba9e5</tt> and the code emitted for its call-site would be <tt>jmp 0xcabba9e5</tt>. If the inline cache ended up bottoming out to the generic routine, a new inline cache would be generated that added an implementation appropriate to the newly seen "form" of the operands and the call-site. Let's say that new IC (inline cache) would have the address <tt>0x900db334</tt>. Early versions of V8 would actually patch the machine code at the call-site to be <tt>jmp 0x900db334</tt> instead of <tt>jmp 0xcabba6e5</tt>.</p><p>Patching machine code has a number of disadvantages, though. It inherently target-specific: you will need different strategies to patch x86-64 and armv7 machine code. It's also expensive: you have to flush the instruction cache after the patch, which slows you down. That is, of course, if you are allowed to patch executable code; on many systems that's impossible. Writable machine code is a potential vulnerability if the system may be vulnerable to remote code execution.</p><p>Perhaps worst of all, though, patching machine code is not thread-safe. In the case of early Javascript, this perhaps wasn't so important; but as JS implementations gained parallel garbage collectors and JS-level parallelism via "service workers", this becomes less acceptable.</p><p>For all of these reasons, the modern take on inline caches is to implement them as a memory location that can be atomically modified. The call site is just <tt>jmp *<i>loc</i></tt>, as if it were a virtual method call. Modern CPUs have "branch target buffers" that predict the target of these indirect branches with very high accuracy so that the indirect jump does not become a pipeline stall. (What does this mean in the face of the Spectre v2 vulnerabilities? Sadly, God only knows at this point. Saddest panda.)</p><p><b>cry, the beloved country</b></p><p>I am interested in ICs in the context of the Guile implementation of Scheme, but first I will make a digression. Scheme is a very monomorphic language. Yet, this monomorphism is entirely cultural. It is in no way essential. Lack of ICs in implementations has actually fed back and encouraged this monomorphism.</p><p>Let us take as an example the case of property access. If you have a pair in Scheme and you want its first field, you do <tt>(car x)</tt>. But if you have a vector, you do <tt>(vector-ref x 0)</tt>.</p><p>What's the reason for this nonuniformity? You could have a generic <tt>ref</tt> procedure, which when invoked as <tt>(ref x 0)</tt> would return the field in <tt>x</tt> associated with 0. Or <tt>(ref x 'foo)</tt> to return the <tt>foo</tt> property of <tt>x</tt>. It would be more orthogonal in some ways, and it's completely valid Scheme.</p><p>We don't write Scheme programs this way, though. From what I can tell, it's for two reasons: one good, and one bad.</p><p>The good reason is that saying <tt>vector-ref</tt> means more to the reader. You know more about the complexity of the operation and what side effects it might have. When you call <tt>ref</tt>, who knows? Using concrete primitives allows for better program analysis and understanding.</p><p>The bad reason is that Scheme implementations, Guile included, tend to compile <tt>(car x)</tt> to much better code than <tt>(ref x 0)</tt>. Scheme implementations in practice aren't well-equipped for polymorphic data access. In fact it is standard Scheme practice to abuse the "macro" facility to manually inline code so that that certain performance-sensitive operations get inlined into a closed graph of monomorphic operators with no callouts. To the extent that this is true, Scheme programmers, Scheme programs, and the Scheme language as a whole are all victims of their implementations. JavaScript, for example, does not have this problem -- to a small extent, maybe, yes, performance tweaks and tuning are always a thing but JavaScript implementations' ability to burn away polymorphism and abstraction results in an entirely different character in JS programs versus Scheme programs.</p><p><b>it gets worse</b></p><p>On the most basic level, Scheme is the call-by-value lambda calculus. It's well-studied, well-understood, and eminently flexible. However the way that the syntax maps to the semantics hides a constrictive monomorphism: that the "callee" of a call refer to a lambda expression.</p><p>Concretely, in an expression like <tt>(a b)</tt>, in which <tt>a</tt> is not a macro, <tt>a</tt> must evaluate to the result of a <tt>lambda</tt> expression. Perhaps by reference (e.g. <tt>(define a (lambda (x) x))</tt>), perhaps directly; but a lambda nonetheless. But what if <tt>a</tt> is actually a vector? At that point the Scheme language standard would declare that to be an error.</p><p>The semantics of Clojure, though, would allow for <tt>((vector 'a 'b 'c) 1)</tt> to evaluate to <tt>b</tt>. Why not in Scheme? There are the same good and bad reasons as with <tt>ref</tt>. Usually, the concerns of the language implementation dominate, regardless of those of the users who generally want to write terse code. Of course in some cases the implementation concerns <i>should</i> dominate, but not always. Here, Scheme could be more flexible if it wanted to.</p><p><b>what have you done for me lately</b></p><p>Although inline caches are not a miracle cure for performance overheads of polymorphic dispatch, they are a tool in the box. But what, precisely, can they do, both in general and for Scheme?</p><p>To my mind, they have five uses. If you can think of more, please let me know in the comments.</p><p>Firstly, they have the classic named property access optimizations as in JavaScript. These apply less to Scheme, as we don't have generic property access. Perhaps this is a deficiency of Scheme, but it's not exactly low-hanging fruit. Perhaps this would be more interesting if Guile had more generic protocols such as Racket's iteration.</p><p>Next, there are the arithmetic operators: addition, multiplication, and so on. Scheme's arithmetic is indeed polymorphic; the addition operator <tt>+</tt> can add any number of complex numbers, with a distinction between exact and inexact values. On a representation level, Guile has fixnums (small exact integers, no heap allocation), bignums (arbitrary-precision heap-allocated exact integers), fractions (exact ratios between integers), flonums (heap-allocated double-precision floating point numbers), and compnums (inexact complex numbers, internally a pair of doubles). Also in Guile, arithmetic operators are a "primitive generics", meaning that they can be extended to operate on new types at runtime via GOOPS.</p><p>The usual situation though is that any particular instance of an addition operator only sees fixnums. In that case, it makes sense to only emit code for fixnums, instead of the product of all possible numeric representations. This is a clear application where inline caches can be interesting to Guile.</p><p>Third, there is a very specific case related to dynamic linking. Did you know that most programs compiled for GNU/Linux and related systems have inline caches in them? It's a bit weird but the <a href="https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/41">"Procedure Linkage Table"</a> (PLT) segment in ELF binaries on Linux systems is set up in a way that when e.g. <tt>libfoo.so</tt> is loaded, the dynamic linker usually doesn't eagerly resolve all of the external routines that <tt>libfoo.so</tt> uses. The first time that <tt>libfoo.so</tt> calls <tt>frobulate</tt>, it ends up calling a procedure that looks up the location of the <tt>frobulate</tt> procedure, then patches the binary code in the PLT so that the next time <tt>frobulate</tt> is called, it dispatches directly. To dynamic language people it's the weirdest thing in the world that the C/C++/everything-static universe has at its cold, cold heart a hash table and a dynamic dispatch system that it doesn't expose to any kind of user for instrumenting or introspection -- any user that's not a malware author, of course.</p><p>But I digress! Guile can use ICs to lazily resolve runtime routines used by compiled Scheme code. But perhaps this isn't optimal, as the set of primitive runtime calls that Guile will embed in its output is finite, and so resolving these routines eagerly would probably be sufficient. Guile could use ICs for inter-module references as well, and these should indeed be resolved lazily; but I don't know, perhaps the current strategy of using a call-site cache for inter-module references is sufficient.</p><p>Fourthly (are you counting?), there is a general case of the former: when you see a call <tt>(a b)</tt> and you don't know what <tt>a</tt> is. If you put an inline cache in the call, instead of having to emit checks that <tt>a</tt> is a heap object and a procedure and then emit an indirect call to the procedure's code, you might be able to emit simply a check that <tt>a</tt> is the same as <tt>x</tt>, the only callee you ever saw at that site, and in that case you can emit a direct branch to the function's code instead of an indirect branch.</p><p>Here I think the argument is less strong. Modern CPUs are already very good at indirect jumps and well-predicted branches. The value of a devirtualization pass in compilers is that it makes the side effects of a virtual method call concrete, allowing for more optimizations; avoiding indirect branches is good but not necessary. On the other hand, Guile does have polymorphic callees (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-2.0/guile-ref/Methods-and-Generic-Functions.html#Methods-and-Generic-Functions">generic functions</a>), and call ICs could help there. Ideally though we would need to extend the language to allow generic functions to feed back to their inline cache handlers.</p><p>Finally, ICs could allow for cheap tracepoints and breakpoints. If at every breakable location you included a <tt>jmp *<i>loc</i></tt>, and the initial value of <tt>*<i>loc</i></tt> was the next instruction, then you could patch individual locations with code to run there. The patched code would be responsible for saving and restoring machine state around the instrumentation.</p><p>Honestly I struggle a lot with the idea of debugging native code. GDB does the least-overhead, most-generic thing, which is patching code directly; but it runs from a separate process, and in Guile we need in-process portable debugging. The debugging use case is a clear area where you want adaptive optimization, so that you can emit debugging ceremony from the hottest code, knowing that you can fall back on some earlier tier. Perhaps Guile should bite the bullet and go this way too.</p><p><b>implementation plan</b></p><p>In Guile, monomorphic as it is in most things, probably only arithmetic is worth the trouble of inline caches, at least in the short term.</p><p>Another question is how much to specialize the inline caches to their call site. On the extreme side, each call site could have a custom calling convention: if the first operand is in register A and the second is in register B and they are expected to be fixnums, and the result goes in register C, and the continuation is the code at L, well then you generate an inline cache that specializes to all of that. No need to shuffle operands or results, no need to save the continuation (return location) on the stack.</p><p>The opposite would be to call ICs as if their were normal procedures: shuffle arguments into fixed operand registers, push a stack frame, and when the IC returns, shuffle the result into place.</p><p>Honestly I am looking mostly to the simple solution. I am concerned about code and heap bloat if I specify to every last detail of a call site. Also maximum speed comes with an adaptive optimizer, and in that case simple lower tiers are best.</p><p><b>sanity check</b></p><p>To compare these impressions, I took a look at V8's current source code to see where they use ICs in practice. When I worked on V8, the compiler was entirely different -- there were two tiers, and both of them generated native code. Inline caches were everywhere, and they were gnarly; every architecture had its own implementation. Now in V8 there are two tiers, not the same as the old ones, and the lowest one is a bytecode interpreter.</p><p>As an adaptive optimizer, V8 doesn't need breakpoint ICs. It can always deoptimize back to the interpreter. In actual practice, to debug at a source location, V8 will patch the bytecode to insert a "DebugBreak" instruction, which has its own support in the interpreter. V8 also supports optimized compilation of this operation. So, no ICs needed here.</p><p>Likewise for generic type feedback, V8 records types as data rather than in the classic formulation of inline caches as in Self. I think WebKit's JavaScriptCore uses a similar strategy.</p><p>V8 does use inline caches for property access (loads and stores). Besides that there is an inline cache used in calls which is just used to record callee counts, and not used for direct call optimization.</p><p>Surprisingly, V8 doesn't even seem to use inline caches for arithmetic (any more?). Fair enough, I guess, given that JavaScript's numbers aren't very polymorphic, and even with a system with fixnums and heap floats like V8, floating-point numbers are rare in cold code.</p><p>The dynamic linking and relocation points don't apply to V8 either, as it doesn't receive binary code from the internet; it always starts from source.</p><p><b>twilight of the inline cache</b></p><p>There was a time when inline caches were recommended to solve all your VM problems, but it would seem now that their heyday is past.</p><p>ICs are still a win if you have named property access on objects whose shape you don't know at compile-time. But improvements in CPU branch target buffers mean that it's no longer imperative to use ICs to avoid indirect branches (modulo Spectre v2), and creating direct branches via code-patching has gotten more expensive and tricky on today's targets with concurrency and deep cache hierarchies.</p><p>Besides that, the type feedback component of inline caches seems to be taken over by explicit data-driven call-site caches, rather than executable inline caches, and the highest-throughput tiers of an adaptive optimizer burn away inline caches anyway. The pressure on an inline cache infrastructure now is towards simplicity and ease of type and call-count profiling, leaving the speed component to those higher tiers.</p><p>In Guile the bounded polymorphism on arithmetic combined with the need for ahead-of-time compilation means that ICs are probably a code size and execution time win, but it will take some engineering to prevent the calling convention overhead from dominating cost.</p><p>Time to experiment, then -- I'll let y'all know how it goes. Thoughts and feedback welcome from the compilerati. Until then, happy hacking :)</p></div>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:14:10 +0000Andy Wingo: notes from the fosdem 2018 networking devroomhttp://wingolog.org/2018/02/05/notes-from-the-fosdem-2018-networking-devroomhttp://wingolog.org/archives/2018/02/05/notes-from-the-fosdem-2018-networking-devroom
<div><p>Greetings, internet!</p><p>I am on my way back from <a href="https://fosdem.org/">FOSDEM</a> and thought I would share with yall some impressions from talks in the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/sdn_and_nfv/">Networking devroom</a>. I didn't get to go to all that many talks -- FOSDEM's hallway track is the hottest of them all -- but I did hit a select few. Thanks to Dave Neary at Red Hat for organizing the room.</p><p><b>Ray Kinsella -- Intel -- <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dpdk_microservices/">The path to data-plane micro-services</a></b></p><p>The day started with a drum-beating talk that was very light on technical information.</p><p>Essentially Ray was arguing for an evolution of network function virtualization -- that instead of running VNFs on bare metal as was done in the days of yore, that people started to run them in virtual machines, and now they run them in containers -- what's next? Ray is saying that "cloud-native VNFs" are the next step.</p><p>Cloud-native VNFs to move from "greedy" VNFs that take charge of the cores that are available to them, to some kind of resource sharing. "Maybe users value flexibility over performance", says Ray. It's the Care Bears approach to networking: (resource) sharing is caring.</p><p>In practice he proposed two ways that VNFs can map to cores and cards.</p><p>One was in-process sharing, which if I understood him properly was actually as nodes running within a VPP process. Basically in this case VPP or DPDK is the scheduler and multiplexes two or more network functions in one process.</p><p>The other was letting Linux schedule separate processes. In networking, we don't usually do it this way: <a href="https://github.com/snabbco/snabb/blob/master/src/program/lwaftr/doc/performance.md">we run network functions on dedicated cores on which nothing else runs</a>. Ray was suggesting that perhaps network functions could be more like "normal" Linux services. Ray doesn't know if Linux scheduling will work in practice. Also it might mean allowing DPDK to work with 4K pages instead of the 2M hugepages it currently requires. This obviously has the potential for more latency hazards and would need some tighter engineering, and ultimately would have fewer guarantees than the "greedy" approach.</p><p>Interesting side things I noticed:</p><ul>
<li><p>All the diagrams show Kubernetes managing CPU node allocation and interface assignment. I guess in marketing diagrams, Kubernetes has completely replaced OpenStack.</p></li>
<li><p>One slide showed guest VNFs differentiated between "virtual network functions" and "socket-based applications", the latter ones being the legacy services that use kernel APIs. It's a useful terminology difference.</p></li>
<li><p>The talk identifies user-space networking with DPDK (only!).</p></li>
</ul><p>Finally, I note that <a href="https://www.wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/09/embracing-conways-law">Conway's law</a> is obviously reflected in the performance overheads: because there are organizational isolations between dev teams, vendors, and users, there are big technical barriers between them too. The least-overhead forms of resource sharing are also those with the highest technical consistency and integration (nodes in a single VPP instance).</p><p><b>Magnus Karlsson -- Intel -- <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/af_xdp/">AF_XDP</a></b></p><p>This was a talk about getting good throughput from the NIC to userspace, but by using some kernel facilities. The idea is to get the kernel to set up the NIC and virtualize the transmit and receive ring buffers, but to let the NIC's DMA'd packets go directly to userspace.</p><p>The performance goal is 40Gbps for thousand-byte packets, or 25 Gbps for traffic with only the smallest packets (64 bytes). The fast path does "zero copy" on the packets if the hardware has the capability to steer the subset of traffic associated with the AF_XDP socket to that particular process.</p><p>The AF_XDP project builds on <a href="https://www.iovisor.org/technology/xdp">XDP</a>, a newish thing where a little kind of bytecode can run on the kernel or possibly on the NIC. One of the bytecode commands (REDIRECT) causes packets to be forwarded to user-space instead of handled by the kernel's otherwise heavyweight networking stack. AF_XDP is the bridge between XDP on the kernel side and an interface to user-space using sockets (as opposed to e.g. AF_INET). The performance goal was to be within 10% or so of DPDK's raw user-space-only performance.</p><p>The benefits of AF_XDP over the current situation would be that you have just one device driver, in the kernel, rather than having to have one driver in the kernel (which you have to have anyway) and one in user-space (for speed). Also, with the kernel involved, there is a possibility for better isolation between different processes or containers, when compared with raw PCI access from user-space..</p><p>AF_XDP is what was previously known as AF_PACKET v4, and its numbers are looking somewhat OK. Though it's not upstream yet, it might be interesting to get a Snabb driver here.</p><p>I would note that kernel-userspace cooperation is a bit of a theme these days. There are other points of potential cooperation or common domain sharing, storage being an obvious one. However I heard more than once this weekend the kind of "I don't know, that area of the kernel has a different culture" sort of concern as that highlighted by Daniel Vetter in his <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/745817/">recent LCA talk</a>.</p><p><b>François-Frédéric Ozog -- Linaro -- <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/netmdev/">Userland Network I/O</a></b></p><p>This talk is hard to summarize. Like the previous one, it's again about getting packets to userspace with some support from the kernel, but the speaker went really deep and I'm not quite sure what in the talk is new and what is known.</p><p>François-Frédéric is working on a new set of abstractions for relating the kernel and user-space. He works on OpenDataPlane (ODP), which is kinda like DPDK in some ways. ARM seems to be a big target for his work; that x86-64 is also a target goes without saying.</p><p>His problem statement was, how should we enable fast userland network I/O, without duplicating drivers?</p><p>François-Frédéric was a bit negative on AF_XDP because (he says) it is so focused on packets that it neglects other kinds of devices with similar needs, such as crypto accelerators. Apparently the challenge here is accelerating a single large IPsec tunnel -- because the cryptographic operations are serialized, you need good single-core performance, and making use of hardware accelerators seems necessary right now for even a single 10Gbps stream. (If you had many tunnels, you could parallelize, but that's not the case here.)</p><p>He was also a bit skeptical about standardizing on the "packet array I/O model" which AF_XDP and most NICS use. What he means here is that most current NICs move packets to and from main memory with the help of a "descriptor array" ring buffer that holds pointers to packets. A transmit array stores packets ready to transmit; a receive array stores maximum-sized packet buffers ready to be filled by the NIC. The packet data itself is somewhere else in memory; the descriptor only points to it. When a new packet is received, the NIC fills the corresponding packet buffer and then updates the "descriptor array" to point to the newly available packet. This requires at least two memory writes from the NIC to memory: at least one to write the packet data (one per 64 bytes of packet data), and one to update the DMA descriptor with the packet length and possible other metadata.</p><p>Although these writes go directly to cache, there's a limit to the number of DMA operations that can happen per second, and with 100Gbps cards, we can't afford to make one such transaction per packet.</p><p>François-Frédéric promoted an alternative I/O model for high-throughput use cases: the "tape I/O model", where packets are just written back-to-back in a uniform array of memory. Every so often a block of memory containing some number of packets is made available to user-space. This has the advantage of packing in more packets per memory block, as there's no wasted space between packets. This increases cache density and decreases DMA transaction count for transferring packet data, as we can use each 64-byte DMA write to its fullest. Additionally there's no side table of descriptors to update, saving a DMA write there.</p><p>Apparently the only cards currently capable of 100 Gbps traffic, the Chelsio and Netcope cards, use the "tape I/O model".</p><p>Incidentally, the DMA transfer limit isn't the only constraint. Something I hadn't fully appreciated before was memory write bandwidth. Before, I had thought that because the NIC would transfer in packet data directly to cache, that this wouldn't necessarily cause any write traffic to RAM. Apparently that's not the case. Later over drinks (thanks to Red Hat's networking group for organizing), François-Frédéric asserted that the DMA transfers would eventually use up DDR4 bandwidth as well.</p><p>A NIC-to-RAM DMA transaction will write one cache line (usually 64 bytes) to the socket's last-level cache. This write will evict whatever was there before. As far as I can tell, there are three cases of interest here. The best case is where the evicted cache line is from a previous DMA transfer to the same address. In that case it's modified in the cache and not yet flushed to main memory, and we can just update the cache instead of flushing to RAM. (Do I misunderstand the way caches work here? Do let me know.)</p><p>However if the evicted cache line is from some other address, we might have to flush to RAM if the cache line is dirty. That causes a memory write traffic. But if the cache line is clean, that means it was probably loaded as part of a memory read operation, and then that means we're evicting part of the network function's working set, which will later cause memory read traffic as the data gets loaded in again, and write traffic to flush out the DMA'd packet data cache line.</p><p>François-Frédéric simplified the whole thing to equate packet bandwidth with memory write bandwidth, that yes, the packet goes directly to cache but it is also written to RAM. I can't convince myself that that's the case for all packets, but I need to look more into this.</p><p>Of course the cache pressure and the memory traffic is worse if the packet data is less compact in memory; and worse still if there is any need to copy data. Ultimately, processing small packets at 100Gbps is still a huge challenge for user-space networking, and it's no wonder that there are only a couple devices on the market that can do it reliably, not that I've seen either of them operate first-hand :)</p><p>Talking with Snabb's Luke Gorrie later on, he thought that it could be that we can still stretch the packet array I/O model for a while, given that PCIe gen4 is coming soon, which will increase the DMA transaction rate. So that's a possibility to keep in mind.</p><p>At the same time, apparently there are some <a href="https://www.ccixconsortium.com/">"coherent interconnects"</a> coming too which will allow the NIC's memory to be mapped into the "normal" address space available to the CPU. In this model, instead of having the NIC transfer packets to the CPU, the NIC's memory will be directly addressable from the CPU, as if it were part of RAM. The latency to pull data in from the NIC to cache is expected to be slightly longer than a RAM access; for comparison, RAM access takes about 70 nanoseconds.</p><p>For a user-space networking workload, coherent interconnects don't change much. You still need to get the packet data into cache. True, you do avoid the writeback to main memory, as the packet is already in addressable memory before it's in cache. But, if it's possible to keep the packet on the NIC -- like maybe you are able to add some kind of inline classifier on the NIC that could directly shunt a packet towards an on-board IPSec accelerator -- in that case you could avoid a lot of memory transfer. That appears to be the driving factor for coherent interconnects.</p><p>At some point in François-Frédéric's talk, my brain just died. I didn't quite understand all the complexities that he was taking into account. Later, after he kindly took the time to dispell some more of my ignorance, I understand more of it, though not yet all :) The concrete "deliverable" of the talk was a model for kernel modules and user-space drivers that uses the paradigms he was promoting. It's a work in progress from Linaro's networking group, with some support from NIC vendors and CPU manufacturers.</p><p><b>Luke Gorrie and Asumu Takikawa -- SnabbCo and Igalia -- <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/lua_snabb/">How to write your own NIC driver, and why</a></b></p><p>This talk had the most magnificent beginning: a sort of "repent now ye sinners" sermon from Luke Gorrie, a seasoned veteran of software networking. Luke started by describing the path of righteousness leading to "driver heaven", a world in which all vendors have publically accessible datasheets which parsimoniously describe what you need to get packets flowing. In this blessed land it's easy to write drivers, and for that reason there are many of them. Developers choose a driver based on their needs, or they write one themselves if their needs are quite specific.</p><p>But there is another path, says Luke, that of "driver hell": a world of wickedness and proprietary datasheets, where even when you buy the hardware, you can't program it unless you're buying a hundred thousand units, and even then you are smitten with the cursed non-disclosure agreements. In this inferno, only a vendor is practically empowered to write drivers, but their poor driver developers are only incentivized to get the driver out the door deployed on all nine architectural circles of driver hell. So they include some kind of circle-of-hell abstraction layer, resulting in a hundred thousand lines of code like a tangled frozen beard. We all saw the abyss and repented.</p><p>Luke described the process that led to Mellanox releasing the specification for its ConnectX line of cards, something that was warmly appreciated by the entire audience, users and driver developers included. Wonderful stuff.</p><p>My Igalia colleague Asumu Takikawa took the last half of the presentation, showing some code for the driver for the Intel i210, i350, and 82599 cards. For more on that, I recommend his recent <a href="https://www.asumu.xyz/blog/2018/01/15/supporting-both-vmdq-and-rss-in-snabb">blog post on user-space driver development</a>. It was truly a ray of sunshine in dark, dark Brussels.</p><p><b>Ole Trøan -- Cisco -- <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/vnf_vpp/">Fast dataplanes with VPP</a></b></p><p>This talk was a delightful introduction to <a href="https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP">VPP</a>, but without all of the marketing; the sort of talk that makes FOSDEM worthwhile. Usually at more commercial, vendory events, you can't really get close to the technical people unless you have a vendor relationship: they are surrounded by a phalanx of salesfolk. But in FOSDEM it is clear that we are all comrades out on the open source networking front.</p><p>The speaker expressed great personal pleasure on having being able to work on open source software; his relief was palpable. A nice moment.</p><p>He also had some kind words about Snabb, too, saying at one point that "of course you can do it on snabb as well -- Snabb and VPP are quite similar in their approach to life". He trolled the horrible complexity diagrams of many "NFV" stacks whose components reflect the org charts that produce them more than the needs of the network functions in question (service chaining anyone?).</p><p>He did get to drop some numbers as well, which I found interesting. One is that recently they have been working on carrier-grade NAT, aiming for 6 terabits per second. Those are pretty big boxes and I hope they are getting paid appropriately for that :) For context he said that for a 4-unit server, these days you can build one that does a little less than a terabit per second. I assume that's with ten dual-port 40Gbps cards, and I would guess to power that you'd need around 40 cores or so, split between two sockets.</p><p>Finally, he finished with a long example on lightweight 4-over-6. Incidentally this is the same network function my group at Igalia has been building in Snabb over the last couple years, so it was interesting to see the comparison. I enjoyed his commentary that although all of these technologies (carrier-grade NAT, MAP, lightweight 4-over-6) have the ostensible goal of keeping IPv4 running, in reality "we're day by day making IPv4 work worse", mainly by breaking the assumption that just because you get traffic from port P on IP M, doesn't mean you can send traffic to M from another port or another protocol and have it reach the target.</p><p>All of these technologies also have problems with IPv4 fragmentation. Getting it right is possible but expensive. Instead, Ole mentions that he and a cross-vendor cabal of dataplane people have a "dark RFC" in the works to deprecate IPv4 fragmentation entirely :)</p><p>OK that's it. If I get around to writing up the couple of interesting Java talks I went to (I know right?) I'll let yall know. Happy hacking!</p></div>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:22:41 +0000URBANIAHOEVE / Social Design Lab for Urban Agriculture: Februari pikant / Spicy hot in February #horseradish #mierikswortel #foodforest #voedselbos#Urbaniahoeve #amsterdamnoord #DemoTuinNoord #DemoGardenhttp://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/?p=2116http://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/2018/02/februari-pikant-spicy-hot-in-february-horseradish-mierikswortel-foodforest-voedselbosurbaniahoeve-amsterdamnoord-demotuinnoord-demogarden/
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</div>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:02:40 +0000Vlax: Limpia los volcanes, llueve las flores / Water the flowers - clean ...https://diasp.org/p/8835692https://diasp.org/p/8835692
<h3>Limpia los volcanes, llueve las flores / Water the flowers - clean the volcanoes</h3>
<p><a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/share">#share</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/culture">#culture</a></p>
<p>via UbuWeb -&gt; <a href="https://twitter.com/ubuweb/status/958762627177635840" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ubuweb/status/958762627177635840</a></p>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:35:32 +0000Vlax: Repentants within Tech-Tyranny creates Think Thank to humanize your...https://diasp.org/p/8835666https://diasp.org/p/8835666
<h3>Repentants within Tech-Tyranny creates Think Thank to humanize your digital life, they said</h3>
<p><a href="https://diasp.org/posts/8834610" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://diasp.org/posts/8834610</a></p>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:23:58 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x20 - Bastardi senza scrupolihttp://api.spreaker.com/episode/13968680http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x20
Una pacata riflessione sulle complessità etico-culturali delle professioni progettuali nell'industria del trattamento di dati personali...Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:10:05 +0000Dyne.org video channel: PIEproject - Commonfare - Marco Sachy aka Radium (Dyne.org)yt:video:6uvwVlt9D2khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvwVlt9D2k
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:36:38 +0000Dyne.org video channel: Common coin: Aspasia Beneti (aspra)yt:video:cAfaBqpozG0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfaBqpozG0
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:51:28 +0000n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: webshit weeklyhttp://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/01/31/0/http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/01/31/0/
<p>An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the last week of January, 2018. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/technology/370133-montana-becomes-first-state-to-implement-net-neutrality-rules-following-fcc">Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 22, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207346">(comments)</a></span><br /> An unpopulated state has strong opinions about packet routing. Hackernews gets into an argument about whether artisanal locally-grown internet is worth the extra money, but the argument is just an excuse to getting back to what Hackernews does best: aggressively misunderstanding the law. The rest of the comments comprise a debate on whether a hypothetical Montana population would develop some sort of rudimentary cultural identity, just like the population of Iowa didn't. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html">Ursula Le Guin has died</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 23, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218439">(comments)</a></span><br /> With a clamor of posts that set the swallows soaring, the remembrance of an author comes to Hackernews in the city Mountain View, bright-towered by the bay. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1064748117305110/1-s2.0-S1064748117305110-main.pdf?_tid=55b0e2e0-013c-11e8-b35b-00000aab0f01&amp;acdnat=1516822117_7ded3d2cd7f5c27fedf6a8992e549857">Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 24, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16225531">(comments)</a></span><br /> Some academics feed pills to a negligible number of old people. Hackernews erupts into trench warfare between those who learned about science from Wikipedia and those who learned about science from working in the web advertising industry. Every soldier in the battlefield dutifully loads and fires reference materials into the enemy, none of which are relevant to the article at hand. Inevitably, the fracas dissolves into extremely gullible Hackernews peddling nutritional supplements and superstitions about health care. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/nasas-long-dead-image-satellite-is-alive/">NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 25, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16236832">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet, looking for a lost satellite, finds a different lost satellite. NASA explains that the satellite in question experienced a malfunction whose only resolution was to restart the whole apparatus, which turns out to be how Hackernews deals with all their problems too. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide">How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 26, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet posts a short story about running a mail server based on four software packages, three of which are extraneous. Hackernews, as with all articles about doing anything for yourself, cries like tiny babies about how hard it is to send and receive email. The few Hackernews who express puzzlement at the wave of whining are derided by Hackernews who haven't used anything but GMail since 2006. A few spammers ask real human beings for tips on evading spam filters. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957317886112124928">Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 27, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955">(comments)</a></span><br /> A surveillance concierge service produces mortar-targeting maps for free. Hackernews is flummoxed that soldiers are people -- and not just that, but people who apparently buy and use things just like other people! Consensus coalesces: none of this is the surveillance company's fault, and the government should just turn off the internet. Hackernews then spends several days LARPing as military information security agents. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-disables-spectre-mitigations-due-instability">Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 28, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255711">(comments)</a></span><br /> Intel continues to be a pack of incompetent morons. Hackernews veers off onto a tangent about how ALL updates for EVERYTHING are fucked, except when they're not, or it's the user's fault, or you should have picked a different product, but not that one either. At some point there is a hundred-comment-long thread about Ubuntu, which causes a spate of posts attempting to invent UNIX from first principles. The rest of the comments are Hackernews whining that nothing happens when they click "check for updates." </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.linuxboot.org/">LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 29, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16259373">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet finds a new hole to shove Linux into. Hackernews agrees that Linux is a better choice than whatever Intel came up with, but gets distracted by an argument about whether it's better to replace a simple, well-understood tool with a slow, insecure, undocumented tool because someone said it was newer. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-to-create-healthcare-company-jd1lraa9">Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 30, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264662">(comments)</a></span><br /> Some rich people decide to get slightly richer in the near future. Hackernews invents a society in which indoor plumbing can be introduced to societies outside of the Bay Area, but realizes the plan is doomed to failure and settles in to argue about economics instead. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.extremetech.com/computing/263110-amd-triumphantly-returns-full-year-profitability-forecasts-strong-2018">AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 31, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274396">(comments)</a></span><br /> AMD accidentally made money last year, bringing its debt load all the way down to $1.3 billion. Every single Hackernews who has purchased an AMD product posts about purchasing an AMD product, and the rest argue about video games. </p>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 05:32:36 +0000Informatic school is in southwest Cameroon: Advance class of Linux Friends 2018http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/?p=1754http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/?p=1754
<p>The Adance class of Linux Friends</p>
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<p>have five students on scholarship, the goal is to make this class stable and to enable those who have graduated from the beginners class to be very very skillful. This students have a natural curiosity to learn new things, the students do most of the talking and work in the class. A variety of learning models are used in the advance class like direct instruction and peers to peers learning. Progressively we will move to project base learning and school to school learning as soon as the crisis will come to an end.</p>
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</div>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:12:38 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x19 - Il fritto di paranzahttp://api.spreaker.com/episode/13906073http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x19
Il Garante stabilisce che il diritto all'oblio vale anche extra-UE, Google &amp; co. devono adeguarsi. Le telecamere nascoste nei totem pubblicitari devono essere segnalate. Arriva l'Educazione Civica Digitale (ma che, davérodavéro?). Notizie di attualità, ma gratta sotto la crosta e la Resistenza è quanto mai necessaria.Mon, 29 Jan 2018 05:10:04 +0000n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: FOSDEM: more boring shithttp://n-gate.com/fosdem/2018/01/28/0/http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2018/01/28/0/
<p>Let's take a look at my annotated copy of the FOSDEM 2018 main talk schedule, shall we?</p><p> </p><h3>Keynotes</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">Welcome to FOSDEM 2018</span><br /> Twenty-five minutes you'll never get back. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Consensus as a Service<br /> Twenty Years of OSI Stewardship</span><br /> Some bureaucrats arrive to explain to everyone how important bureaucracy is. One of them takes credit for introducing Java and XML to IBM, as though that is a praiseworthy achievement instead of grounds for a war crimes tribunal. The talk description focuses heavily on namedropping corporations known for ramming code into production whether there is consensus or not. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Next Generation Internet Initiative<br /> An opportunity to fix the internet</span><br /> Some academics would like anyone at all to listen to them. Their thesis is that the European Union is the right organization to reinvent the internet, presumably based on the wild success experienced during the reinvention of Europe. Nobody involved appears to have actually done anything, either in the past or the present. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">The Spectre of CPU Meltdown<br /> Trade-offs between performance and security</span><br /> A Red Hat employee who is good at ARM processors would like to lecture everyone about something. We don't get to know what, because the talk description is blank, but we can guess: the speaker's pet technologies are the solution to all our problems, assuming we can just ignore the crippling problems of those pet technologies. This is merely speculation, but it doesn't really matter which PR fluff Red Hat chooses to excrete; they paid a lot to be a "cornerstone sponsor" and by God they're going to get a keynote slot. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Closing FOSDEM 2018</span><br /> Ten MORE minutes you'll never get back. </p> <h3>Community</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">OpenADx – xcelerate your Automated Driving development<br /> Leveraging open collaboration and open source to accelerate development of Automated Driving</span><br /> Bosch, an automotive manufacturer, sends a drone to ask that programmers line up behind Bosch. Bosch has decided to base their automated driving software on Eclipse, which allows us to infer some important facts: This software will never finish loading, much less begin to work. Your car will have the ask.com toolbar installed on every update. Very soon, nobody will ever hear of OpenADx ever again, but not before it makes the news for causing massive freeway-blocking traffic fatalities because someone's car crossed a time zone. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Why I forked my own project and my own company<br /> ownCloud to Nextcloud</span><br /> A programmer tells the harrowing tale of doing things other than programming, fucking them all up, and trying again. The talk description does not indicate that the speaker will present a solution to one of the oldest open problems in the software engineering discipline: "why anyone should trust software written by PHP programmers." <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Sustainability of Open Source in International Development<br /> A new approach from the United Nations Foundation</span><br /> A bureaucratic parasite tries to convince the world that the United Nations should be taken seriously as a software project management organization. The talk describes the parasite's domain as "a multilateral participatory program" and "in collaboration with partners around the world," which is ancient United Nations code for "we are going to demand resources that we can use to demand further resources." <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Love What You Do, Everyday! </span><br /> Another bureaucrat arrives to teach us how to like our jobs, providing those jobs are "cloning Borland Delphi and giving it to the Apache Software Foundation" or "cloning Microsoft Office and giving it to the Apache Software Foundation." No advice is offered for "living with what you've done, everyday." </p> <h3>History</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2017 FreeBSD<br /> Important Milestones and Lessons Learned</span><br /> An academic has spent some number of years shoving unix into a github repository, and now would like to read it aloud. Presumably some Greek student is furious that they had to pay money to attend this lecture last year. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">The circuit less traveled<br /> Investigating some alternate histories of computing.</span><br /> A person nobody cares about will read the names of some software nobody cares about. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Digital Archaeology<br /> Maintaining our digital heritage</span><br /> A self-described "industry thought leader" invites you to "experience his musings." In fact it's another academic attempting to convince us of the importance of his job. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Reimagining EDSAC in open source<br /> An valve computer reimplemented using FPGAs, Arduinos, 3D printing and discrete electronics</span><br /> Some students recreate an ancient computer without any of the things that made it interesting. </p> <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">Configuration Revolution<br /> Why it Needed 13 Years and How it Will be Done</span><br /> An Internet invites you to simplify your program's configuration file by importing a 130,000-line software grenade, over which you have no control. Wasteful and complicated constructs like "text files" can finally be discarded in favor of a globally-addressable nested key-value datastore which requires new software to be written for every type of configuration data. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">IPC in 1-2-3<br /> Everything you always wanted from a network, but were afraid to ask </span><br /> Some academics arrive to pitch their latest invention: interprocess communications in the form of a packet-switched network. All you need to get started is a packet-switched network, on top of which they may pile untold complexity. Enthusiasts of doctoral thesis-defense trial runs will be sure to love this presentation. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Igniting the Open Hardware Ecosystem with RISC-V<br /> SiFive's Freedom U500 is the World's First Linux-capable Open Source SoC Platform </span><br /> A person who maintains software targeting hardware that does not in fact exist shows up to talk about the burgeoning field of hardware fanfiction. The speaker has successfully tricked several GNU projects into supporting this nonexistent architecture, which was a natural fit for their nonexistent Hurd operating system. This is the first time on record that a complete compute stack, from absent silicon to absent operating system to absent users, has ever been announced to be released Real Soon Now. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Terra Bruciata<br /> where bugs cannot survive </span><br /> Obviously the only place that bugs cannot survive is within software that is not ever run, so the presenter would like to discuss the many different approaches to ensuring that unused software is subjected to a mind-numbing array of bureaucratic oversight, outdated standards documents, and half-assed formal verification procedures. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Cyborg Teams<br /> Training machines to be Open Source contributors </span><br /> A webshit would like to brag about handing control of a software project over to a monte-carlo approximation of a project manager. The software project in question is webshit designed to expose root control of your computer to a web browser. This talk is the first multi-scale integrated model of terrible decision making and questionable practice. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Running Android on the Mainline Graphics Stack </span><br /> Someone has shoved enough bullshit into the linux kernel, the Mesa graphical library, and the Android user space that they finally work together, if you break a lot of stuff and add a lot of otherwise-unneccesary software. The speaker is here to gloat about being involved with cramming so much garbage into so many disparate projects. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Re-structuring a giant, ancient code-base for new platforms<br /> Making LibreOffice work well everywhere. </span><br /> Glossing over the reasons they skipped "making LibreOffice work well <i>anywhere</i>", a company devoted to taking credit for other people's work is here to take credit for shoving a Microsoft Office clone into a web browser. </p> <h3>Performance</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">MySQL: Scaling &amp; High Availability Production experience for the last decade </span><br /> A comedy routine in which a professional database janitor pretends to honestly believe that MySQL is capable of doing anything quickly or scaling in a manner other than "run sixty of these and have fifty-nine of them lie to clients." After the talk, several spontaneous "how to migrate to PostgreSQL" talks will break out in the hallway outside, closely attended by sweating project managers who were not previously aware of what a trash pile MySQL and its advocates are. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Elasticsearch (R)Evolution<br /> You Know, for Search... </span><br /> Elasticsearch is a distributed customer-data exposure tool with a ransomware-friendly webshit interface. The company who charges money to clean up the mess has sent one of its less useful drones to drum up audience interest in the implementation details that make their product respond reliably and quickly to random internet assailants scanning AWS for data left unprotected by morons. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Optimizing Software Defined Storage for the Age of Flash </span><br /> The Gluster team at Red Hat, bereft of customers, whiles away the hours by pretending it takes any work at all to reap performance benefits from faster hardware. The thesis seems to be that shitty software was acceptable when the hardware was shitty, but since storage platforms have improved, the bad programming and awful architecture of their project has become more obvious. Evidently it takes three people to apologize. </p> <h3>Python</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">Python 3: 10 years later<br /> Looking back at Python evolutions of the last 10 years </span><br /> A Python arrives to tell us that Python 2 is irretrievably fucked and everyone should switch to Python 3, just like they've been telling us for the past decade. The primary products of the speaker's own employer rely entirely on Python 2, just like they have for the past decade. The talk will include plans for replacing Python 3 with Python 4, by the team who fucked up the previous transition so badly that Python 2 has been "deprecated" longer than the release interval between 2.0 and 3.0. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Surviving in an Open Source Niche: the Pythran case<br /> a compiler for scientific kernels written in Python, six years later </span><br /> A monster uses a Python subset as a C++ templating language. The monster will be on hand to explain how to secure funding for similar monstrosities. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Lift your Speed Limits with Cython<br /> Fast native code for Python </span><br /> The speaker presents a horrible chimera of a programming language, wherein the drawbacks and limitations of Python are augmented by the drawbacks and limitations of C. The result is a language that introduces header files to Python and requires breathtaking amounts of boilerplate. The primary goal of Cython appears to be transforming the programming experience from "implementing a solution to a given problem" to "trying to guess when to turn off exception handling so that your code runs marginally faster." <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Load testing web services at Mozilla with Molotov<br /> http://molotov.readthedocs.io/ </span><br /> Since nobody uses the eighteen million web services that Mozilla starts, ignores, deprecates, and discontinues each month, Mozilla has devoted actual resources to creating software devoted to making themselves feel like they have users. The speaker is willing to educate the audience on how to replace market penetration with a few hundred lines of code. The talk is in the Python track because of an implementation detail and because there is no "software nobody wants" track. </p> <h3>Security and Encryption</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">Sancus 2.0: Open-Source Trusted Computing for the IoT </span><br /> A buzzword enthusiast will talk about some software nobody will use, designed to run on hardware nobody wants. Another refugee from the "software nobody wants" track FOSDEM has once again failed to implement. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Using TPM 2.0 As a Secure Keystore on your Laptop<br /> It's not as difficult as you think! </span><br /> An IBM arrives to teach us how to use hardware he doesn't use. Lots of words will be expounded about integrating all kinds of software into this hardware chip, but a cursory glance at the speaker's own website reveals all this crap is such a pain in the ass that he just uses ssh-agent anyway. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Data integrity protection with cryptsetup tools<br /> what is the Linux dm-integrity module and why we extended dm-crypt to use authenticated encryption </span><br /> Red Hat explains how they're fixing all their previous fuckups with linux disk encryption. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Inside Monero<br /> The world's first fungible cryptocurrency </span><br /> An LDAP programmer arrives to explain why we should all give a shit about the Bitcoin knockoff whose primary use is <a href="https://diegobetto.com/crypto-miner-coinhive-youtube-ads/">chewing through your processor whenever you watch videos on Youtube</a>. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">Security Theatre<br /> The (mostly) unknown OSI Layer 8 </span><br /> Someone has noticed that most of the problems with computers are caused by people. </p> <h3>Space</h3> <p> <span class="storylink">SatNOGS: Crowd-sourced satellite operations<br /> Satellite Open Source Ground Station Network </span><br /> The speaker seems to be confused regarding employment; he either works for Greenpeace or Mozilla, but since the software on which this talk focuses appears to function as intended, we can assume he does not work for Mozilla. <br /><br /> <span class="storylink">The story of UPSat<br /> Building the first open source software and hardware satellite </span><br /> This talk focuses on the only hardware project at FOSDEM that actually exists in the physical world. This speaker <i>does</i> work for Mozilla, but his title is "Community Architect." Apparently Mozilla has automated their user-ignoring toolkit sufficiently that the people in charge of it have time to reach orbit, where they can pretend people haven't been doing this <a href="https://projectoscar.wordpress.com/about/">since the Kennedy administration</a>. </p>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:13:38 +0000Evgeny Morozov: Will tech giants move on from the internet, now we’ve all been harvested?http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/28/morozov-artificial-intelligence-data-technology-onlinehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/28/morozov-artificial-intelligence-data-technology-online
Internet users have fed firms their personal data – which in turn is feeding the rapid growth of AI. Has the industry consumed all it needs from the web?<br /><p>Much of the current hysteria about the technology industry is due to its highly ambiguous relationship with its users. Driven by the logics of both compassion and indifference, this relationship has always been erratic yet functional. These two clashing rationales, for example, allowed technology companies, frequently painted as Dr Evil, to claim the mantle of Mother Theresa. However, as the unresolved contradictions of these logics pile up, we can’t fail to notice the incoherence of the industry’s overall social vision.</p><p>The compassion story has some truth to it. Tech giants have pegged their business models on our ability to consume. Thus, their interests are somewhat aligned with ours: we need a paycheque to buy what’s being advertised. A charitable comparison might be to Henry Ford paying his workers enough to buy his cars; a less charitable might be to slave owners keeping slaves fed not to lose them to exhaustion. However, unlike Ford or slave owners, our tech moguls want someone else to fund their preferred solutions (eg the universal basic income).</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/28/morozov-artificial-intelligence-data-technology-online">Continue reading...</a>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:04:04 +0000Trasformatorio: Coscienza Ambientale Workshop a Scalettahttp://www.trasformatorio.net/?p=2731http://www.trasformatorio.net/?p=2731
PRESS RELEASE//COMUNICATO STAMPA (ITALIAN BELOW) The 2018 edition of the “Transformatorio – Fourth International Laboratory of Experimental, Performing anSite-Specificic Arts”. The lab is being prepared, organized by the Dutch foundation Dyne.org, in collaboration with the Cultural Association Siddharte and the Municipality of Scaletta Zanclea. In preparation on March 17th and 18th, an open laboratory of […]Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:33:40 +0000In the news: Scaletta Zanclea: Siddharte organizza un workshop gratuito - 24live.ittag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.24live.it/154632-scaletta-zanclea-siddharte-organizza-un-workshop-gratuitohttp://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNFdzdSULlharkKq3zUtabhNXKryVQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=vzqOWtDoDI-gWorsspgN&url=http://www.24live.it/154632-scaletta-zanclea-siddharte-organizza-un-workshop-gratuito
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Yeah, so, my name is Lynn Walsh.
I currently am the national president for the Society of Professional Journalists. I also work full-time for NBC in San Diego where I'm the executive investigative...Fri, 26 Jan 2018 06:15:00 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x18 - Allarme atomico, anzi nohttp://api.spreaker.com/episode/13853769http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x18
L'istruttiva storia dell'allarme per un attacco missilistico che non c'era, perché riusciamo sempre a dimenticare che il verbo del design è "progettare",Mon, 22 Jan 2018 05:10:05 +0000n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: webshit weeklyhttp://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/01/21/0/http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/01/21/0/
<p>An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the third week of January, 2018. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory">Google Memory Loss</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 15, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153840">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet is lost in the SERP e-market and can no longer search happily. Hackernews briefly explodes with a litany of complaints about Google's failure to meet their expectations in basically every market Google has entered. Fortunately, they all come to their senses and chant the standard praises unto their Lords, lest the cloud is rent asunder by the wrath of the Googly appendage. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/01/16/mozilla-files-suit-fcc-protect-net-neutrality/">Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 16, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163189">(comments)</a></span><br /> Mozilla devotes yet more resources to things that are merely tangentially related to the only Mozilla product anyone has ever cared about. They expect their problem report to remain in NEW state in the Federal bug tracker indefinitely. Hackernews gets to armchair lawyering just in case the legal opinions of cloistered programmer drones ever become relevant. The consensus is that all of these politicians just need to study the OSI model and all these problems will go away. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-faster-firefoxs-new-streaming-and-tiering-compiler/">Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 17, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16169236">(comments)</a></span><br /> Mozilla posts more condescending cartoons to illustrate their new breakthrough: they can now compile code nobody writes much faster than they could before. Hackernews is staggered by this tremendous technical achievement -- to the degree that valid technical objections are derided as off-topic and heaped with scorn. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.winehq.org/news/2018011801">Wine 3.0 Released</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 18, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16178534">(comments)</a></span><br /> A software project posts a release announcement explaining that their arbitrary schedule caused them to drop several features on the floor. Hackernews is tremendously excited that they can now poorly run Photoshop on computers that could have run Photoshop perfectly, before Hackernews got their hands on them. Dozens of pages of technical details are posted to enable others to run expensive software in the least convenient possible manner. Some Hackernews express intent to purchase hundreds of dollars of new hardware to give this a try. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html">LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 19, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188502">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet writes security software. To fit with Apple's overarching development recommendations, the software is trivially bypassed and jam-packed with XML. Hackernews complains that none of this class of software make it easy enough to hand control of your network over to strangers. When this gets boring they switch over to arguing about licenses for another hundred pages. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it">Intel Has a Big Problem</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 20, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194011">(comments)</a></span><br /> Some journalists write alternate-history fiction about a dimension where Intel could possibly ever be held responsible for anything. Hackernews either doesn't realize it is fiction or seamlessly changes into a fanfiction forum, enumerating all of the individual market segments where Intel could (but will not) lose any significant amount of business. The rest of the comments are barely comprehensible lectures incorrecting each other about how processors work. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://blog.r3bl.me/en/the-city-whose-name-i-cannot-mention/">The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 21, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197851">(comments)</a></span><br /> A webshit is mad at Sarajevo's city council. Hackernews likes the pretty pictures. Other Hackernews get into the spirit of the webshit's armchair lawyering. Neither the original article or the resulting comment threads are worth even loading in a web browser, much less reading. No technology is discussed. </p>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 04:37:05 +0000Andy Wingo: instruction explosion in guilehttp://wingolog.org/2018/01/17/instruction-explosion-in-guilehttp://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/17/instruction-explosion-in-guile
<div><p>Greetings, fellow Schemers and compiler nerds: I bring fresh nargery!</p><p><b>instruction explosion</b></p><p>A couple years ago I made a list of <a href="https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/02/04/guile-compiler-tasks">compiler tasks for Guile</a>. Most of these are still open, but I've been chipping away at the one labeled "instruction explosion":</p><blockquote><p> Now we get more to the compiler side of things. Currently in Guile's VM there are instructions like <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Inlined-Scheme-Instructions.html#Inlined-Scheme-Instructions">vector-ref</a>. This is a little silly: there are also instructions to branch on the type of an object (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Branch-Instructions.html#Branch-Instructions">br-if-tc7</a> in this case), to get the vector's length, and to do a branching integer comparison. Really we should replace vector-ref with a combination of these test-and-branches, with real control flow in the function, and then the actual ref should use some more primitive unchecked memory reference instruction. Optimization could end up hoisting everything but the primitive unchecked memory reference, while preserving safety, which would be a win. But probably in most cases optimization wouldn't manage to do this, which would be a lose overall because you have more instruction dispatch.</p><p>Well, this transformation is something we need for native compilation anyway. I would accept a patch to do this kind of transformation on the master branch, after version 2.2.0 has forked. In theory this would remove most all high level instructions from the VM, making the bytecode closer to a virtual CPU, and likewise making it easier for the compiler to emit native code as it's working at a lower level. </p></blockquote><p>Now that I'm getting close to finished I wanted to share some thoughts. <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-01/msg00003.html">Previous progress reports on the mailing list</a>.</p><p><b>a simple loop</b></p><p>As an example, consider this loop that sums the 32-bit floats in a bytevector. I've annotated the code with lines and columns so that you can correspond different pieces to the assembly.</p><pre>
0 8 12 19
+-v-------v---v------v-
|
1| (use-modules (rnrs bytevectors))
2| (define (f32v-sum bv)
3| (let lp ((n 0) (sum 0.0))
4| (if (&lt; n (bytevector-length bv))
5| (lp (+ n 4)
6| (+ sum (bytevector-ieee-single-native-ref bv n)))
7| sum)))
</pre><p>The assembly for the loop before instruction explosion went like this:</p><pre>
L1:
17 (handle-interrupts) at (unknown file):5:12
18 (uadd/immediate 0 1 4)
19 (bv-f32-ref 1 3 1) at (unknown file):6:19
20 (fadd 2 2 1) at (unknown file):6:12
21 (s64&lt;? 0 4) at (unknown file):4:8
22 (jnl 8) ;; -&gt; L4
23 (mov 1 0) at (unknown file):5:8
24 (j -7) ;; -&gt; L1
</pre><p>So, already Guile's compiler has hoisted the <tt>(bytevector-length bv)</tt> and unboxed the loop index <i>n</i> and accumulator <i>sum</i>. This work aims to simplify further by exploding <tt>bv-f32-ref</tt>.</p><p><b>exploding the loop</b></p><p>In practice, instruction explosion happens in CPS conversion, as we are converting the Scheme-like <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Tree_002dIL.html#Tree_002dIL">Tree-IL</a> language down to the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Continuation_002dPassing-Style.html#Continuation_002dPassing-Style">CPS soup</a> language. When we see a Tree-Il primcall (a call to a known primitive), instead of lowering it to a corresponding CPS primcall, we inline a whole blob of code.</p><p>In the concrete case of <tt>bv-f32-ref</tt>, we'd inline it with something like the following:</p><pre>
(unless (and (heap-object? bv)
(eq? (heap-type-tag bv) %bytevector-tag))
(error "not a bytevector" bv))
(define len (word-ref bv 1))
(define ptr (word-ref bv 2))
(unless (and (&lt;= 4 len)
(&lt;= idx (- len 4)))
(error "out of range" idx))
(f32-ref ptr len)
</pre><p>As you can see, there are four branches hidden in the <tt>bv-f32-ref</tt>: two to check that the object is a bytevector, and two to check that the index is within range. In this explanation we assume that the offset <i>idx</i> is already unboxed, but actually unboxing the index ends up being part of this work as well.</p><p>One of the goals of instruction explosion was that by breaking the operation into a number of smaller, more orthogonal parts, native code generation would be easier, because the compiler would only have to know about those small bits. However without an optimizing compiler, it would be better to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15hmBrCrmMZzra8ekhl7meQZBodeahsauilNDImif5Xg/edit#heading=h.8zevmmfemvcv">reify a call out to a specialized <tt>bv-f32-ref</tt> runtime routine</a> instead of inlining all of this code -- probably whatever language you write your runtime routine in (C, rust, whatever) will do a better job optimizing than your compiler will.</p><p>But with an optimizing compiler, there is the possibility of removing possibly everything but the <tt>f32-ref</tt>. Guile doesn't quite get there, but almost; here's the post-explosion optimized assembly of the inner loop of f32v-sum:</p><pre>
L1:
27 (handle-interrupts)
28 (tag-fixnum 1 2)
29 (s64&lt;? 2 4) at (unknown file):4:8
30 (jnl 15) ;; -&gt; L5
31 (uadd/immediate 0 2 4) at (unknown file):5:12
32 (u64&lt;? 2 7) at (unknown file):6:19
33 (jnl 5) ;; -&gt; L2
34 (f32-ref 2 5 2)
35 (fadd 3 3 2) at (unknown file):6:12
36 (mov 2 0) at (unknown file):5:8
37 (j -10) ;; -&gt; L1
</pre><p><b>good things</b></p><p>The first thing to note is that unlike the "before" code, there's no instruction in this loop that can throw an exception. Neat.</p><p>Next, note that there's no type check on the bytevector; the <a href="https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/07/28/loop-optimizations-in-guile">peeled iteration</a> preceding the loop already proved that the bytevector is a bytevector.</p><p>And indeed there's no reference to the bytevector at all in the loop! The value being dereferenced in <tt>(f32-ref 2 5 2)</tt> is a raw pointer. (Read this instruction as, "sp[2] = *(float*)((byte*)sp[5] + (uptrdiff_t)sp[2])".) The compiler does something interesting; the <tt>f32-ref</tt> CPS primcall actually takes three arguments: the garbage-collected object protecting the pointer, the pointer itself, and the offset. The object itself doesn't appear in the residual code, but including it in the <tt>f32-ref</tt> primcall's inputs keeps it alive as long as the <tt>f32-ref</tt> itself is alive.</p><p><b>bad things</b></p><p>Then there are the limitations. Firstly, instruction 28 tags the u64 loop index as a fixnum, but never uses the result. Why is this here? Sadly it's because the value is used in the bailout at L2. Recall this pseudocode:</p><pre>
(unless (and (&lt;= 4 len)
(&lt;= idx (- len 4)))
(error "out of range" idx))
</pre><p>Here the <a>error</a> ends up lowering to a <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-01/msg00003.html"><tt>throw</tt> CPS term</a> that the compiler recognizes as a bailout and renders out-of-line; cool. But it uses <i>idx</i> as an argument, as a tagged SCM value. The compiler untags the loop index, but has to keep a tagged version around for the error cases.</p><p>The right fix is probably some kind of allocation sinking pass that sinks the <tt>tag-fixnum</tt> to the bailouts. Oh well.</p><p>Additionally, there are two tests in the loop. Are both necessary? Turns out, yes :( Imagine you have a bytevector of length 102<b>5</b>. The loop continues until the last ref at offset 1024, which is within bounds of the bytevector but there's one one byte available at that point, so we need to throw an exception at this point. The compiler did as good a job as we could expect it to do.</p><p><b>is is worth it? where to now?</b></p><p>On the one hand, instruction explosion is a step sideways. The code is more optimal, but it's more instructions. Because Guile currently has a bytecode VM, that means more total interpreter overhead. Testing on a 40-megabyte bytevector of 32-bit floats, the exploded <tt>f32v-sum</tt> completes in 115 milliseconds compared to around 97 for the earlier version.</p><p>On the other hand, it is very easy to imagine how to compile these instructions to native code, either ahead-of-time or via a simple template JIT. You practically just have to look up the instructions in the corresponding ISA reference, is all. The result should perform quite well.</p><p>I will probably take a whack at a simple template JIT first that does no register allocation, then ahead-of-time compilation with register allocation. Getting the AOT-compiled artifacts to dynamically link with runtime routines is a sufficient pain in my mind that I will put it off a bit until later. I also need to figure out a good strategy for truly polymorphic operations like general integer addition; probably involving inline caches.</p><p>So that's where we're at :) Thanks for reading, and happy hacking in Guile in 2018!</p></div>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:30:15 +0000Informatic school is in southwest Cameroon: Mounting a new Computer with raspberry Pi3http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/?p=1742http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/?p=1742
<p> </p>
<p>The Advance class of Linux Friends</p>
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<p>has mounted a computer. It contain an SD card with Rasbian Desktop, it is a quad core computer with one mega ram. The idea is to produce cheap computers that every body can used.</p>
<p><a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_1244231.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180126_124423(1)" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1756" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_1244231-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a> <a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_12442311.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180126_124423(1)" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1759" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_12442311-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a> <a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_1244232.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180126_124423" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1758" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_1244232-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a> <a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_124423.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180126_124423" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1755" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180126_124423-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_151626.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180116_151626" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1743" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_151626-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a><a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_151625.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180116_151625" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1744" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_151625-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a><a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_150236.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180116_150236" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1745" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_150236-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a><a href="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_150231.jpg"><img alt="IMG_20180116_150231" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1746" height="225" src="http://sokolo.cronopios.org/wordpressses/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20180116_150231-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></p>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:27:04 +0000n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: webshit weeklyhttp://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/01/14/0/http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/01/14/0/
<p>An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of January, 2018. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/">The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 08, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098847">(comments)</a></span><br /> A journalist has run out of things to talk about, and so resorts to whining about smartphones. Hackernews gets engrossed in a discussion of the finer points of introducing their children to Apple products without letting them learn how to fend for themselves. Other Hackernews are angry that this newspaper article is not a peer-reviewed academic paper with a citation list. Most of the rest of the comments are from people who regard any public expression of worry as a direct act of psychological warfare on the reader. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="http://ampletter.org/">A letter about Google AMP</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 09, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108553">(comments)</a></span><br /> Some Internets are angry that Google runs the web. The few Hackernews with the temerity to disagree with Google are buried in an avalanche of straw men stuffed with red herrings. Several dozen Hackernews try to imagine what search engine optimization should look like, without ever stopping to question why "search engine optimization" is a thing that the web would ever need in the first place. The consensus seems to be that AMP is necessary because without it people won't do what Google wants, which is clearly an unsustainable position for humanity to take. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-down-violating-websites-terms-service-not-crime">Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 10, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119686">(comments)</a></span><br /> The police are not required to enforce webshit terms of service. Hackernews is glad to have the cops off their tails, but can't stop for a sigh of relief: they're wasting all their breath bickering about commonly-used legal terms in an attempt to justify software piracy. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://signal.org/blog/skype-partnership/">Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 11, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125077">(comments)</a></span><br /> Microsoft pays some nerds. Hackernews, unwilling to settle for reinventing chat programs from first principles, reinvents the chat program <i>industry</i> from first principles. Some Hackernews wrestle with whether Signal is the encrypted comms tool that will save the world, or whether it's just another NSA front. A sidebar is held to bitch about Skype's user interface. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/">An Experimental Course on Operating Systems</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 12, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134618">(comments)</a></span><br /> A graduate student in the Rust Evangelism Strike Force is given enough rope. Hackernews spends some time shopping for light-blinking accoutrements and then questions whether it's even possible to write software that is not just a reimplementation of existing software. A subgroup of these decide the fundamental purpose of an operating system is to render webshit. A roll call is held for every operating system Hackernews has ever heard of. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://www.bensw.com/blog/Aaron-5-Years-Later/">Aaron, 5 years later</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 13, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16141013">(comments)</a></span><br /> An Internet writes about coping with the death of a family member, concluding with some sage advice: "You should follow me on Twitter". Hackernews discards this instruction and instead pastes quotes about the deceased from every <i>other</i> Twitter account they can find. The rest of the comments are people speaking well of the dead and other people arguing about whose fault the death was. </p> <p> <span class="storylink"><a href="https://petermolnar.net/linkedin-public-settings-ignored/">LinkedIn is ignoring user settings</a></span><br /> <span class="smalldate">January 14, 2018</span> <span class="small"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16144001">(comments)</a></span><br /> A webshit is mad because a spam company isn't following instructions. Hackernews is familiar with the spam company because they have all accidentally given it money. As usual with "I'm too stupid to direct the flow of my own capital" discussions on Hackernews, the thread devolves into competitive bank-shilling. The rest of the comment threads are the old Hackernews standards: "this website is dying because I don't like it," "this is a user interface problem and not a fundamental design flaw," "I am smarter than everyone I know," and the inevitable "I am better than you because I don't use this service." </p>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:59:25 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x17 - Cara #IBM, un bel tacer non fu mai scritto.http://api.spreaker.com/episode/13798506http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x17
Cosa fa una multinazionale come IBM per cavarsi dall'impaccio delle rivelazioni sul #datagrab di Watson Health? Ma è ovvio, diffida il giornalista dal rendere pubblici i documenti da cui quelle rivelazioni derivano. Col risultato di confermare l'autenticità delle fonti, e il proprio interesse a stipulare accordi lontano dal pubblico scrutinio. Complimenti, geni.Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:15:04 +0000Vlax: El Jarabe - Son de Maderahttps://diasp.org/p/8705171https://diasp.org/p/8705171
<h3>El Jarabe - Son de Madera</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>soy el aguacero entre la neblina, claro jardinero de la flor divina, agua del venero que nunca termina</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/musica">#musica</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/sonjarocho">#sonjarocho</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/M%C3%A9xico">#México</a> <a class="tag" href="https://diasp.org/tags/cultura">#cultura</a></p>
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<p><em>permítame usted una interrupción a su aburrimiento musical : este es uno de los más chingones sones :) Lo compuso Ramón Gutierrez quien lo interpreta y canta junto con Jose Tereso Vega Herandez, jarana tercera, y Natalia Arroyo Rodríguez al violín. La grabación corresponde a un programa del Canal 11 de la televisión pública mexicana</em></p>
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<li><a href="https://www.last.fm/es/music/Son+de+Madera" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.last.fm/es/music/Son+de+Madera</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sonjarocho.mx/portfolio/son-de-madera/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://sonjarocho.mx/portfolio/son-de-madera/</a></li>
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<p><a href="https://youtu.be/1Qb7FeOKd3U?t=10m51s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/1Qb7FeOKd3U?t=10m51s</a></p>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 03:22:25 +0000videogame confessional forum: kate moserhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/5a5661baa96691002d0cd331https://nodontdie.com/kate-moser/
Okay. Well, I am Kate Moser. I am 33 and I live in the Seattle, Washington area.
I started in games in the '90s as a kid, pretty much like everyone else at this point. [Laughs.] That got me really...Fri, 12 Jan 2018 06:27:00 +0000Andy Wingo: spectre and the end of langsechttp://wingolog.org/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsechttp://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsec
<div><p>I remember in 2008 seeing Gerald Sussman, creator of the Scheme language, resignedly describing a sea change in the MIT computer science curriculum. In response to a question from the audience, <a href="https://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/international-lisp-conference-day-two">he said</a>:</p><blockquote><p>The work of engineers used to be about taking small parts that they understood entirely and using simple techniques to compose them into larger things that do what they want.</p><p>But programming now isn't so much like that. Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don't know who wrote. <i>You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work</i>, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job. </p></blockquote><p>Like many I was profoundly saddened by this analysis. I want to believe in constructive correctness, in math and in proofs. And so with the rise of functional programming, I thought that this historical slide from reason towards observation was just that, historical, and that the "safe" languages had a compelling value that would be evident eventually: that "another world is possible".</p><p>In particular I found solace in "langsec", an approach to assessing and ensuring system security in terms of constructively correct programs. One obvious application is parsing of untrusted input, and indeed the <a href="http://langsec.org/">langsec.org website</a> appears to emphasize this domain as one in which a programming languages approach can be fruitful. It is, after all, <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Types-and-the-Web.html#Types-and-the-Web">a truth universally acknowledged, that a program with good use of data types, will be free from many common bugs.</a> So far so good, and so far so successful.</p><p>The basis of language security is starting from a programming language with a well-defined, easy-to-understand semantics. From there you can prove (formally or informally) interesting security properties about particular programs. For example, if a program has a secret <i>k</i>, but some untrusted subcomponent <i>C</i> of it should not have access to <i>k</i>, one can prove if <i>k</i> can or cannot leak to <i>C</i>. This approach is taken, for example, by <a href="https://developers.google.com/caja/">Google's Caja compiler</a> to isolate components from each other, even when they run in the context of the same web page.</p><p>But the <a href="https://spectreattack.com/">Spectre</a> and <a href="https://meltdownattack.com/">Meltdown</a> attacks have seriously set back this endeavor. One manifestation of the Spectre vulnerability is that code running in a process can now read the entirety of its address space, bypassing invariants of the language in which it is written, even if it is written in a "safe" language. This is currently being used by JavaScript programs to exfiltrate passwords from a browser's password manager, or bitcoin wallets.</p><p>Mathematically, in terms of the semantics of e.g. JavaScript, these attacks should not be possible. But practically, they work. Spectre shows us that the building blocks provided to us by Intel, ARM, and all the rest are no longer "small parts understood entirely"; that instead now we have to do "basic science" on our CPUs and memory hierarchies to know what they do.</p><p>What's worse, we need to do basic science to come up with adequate mitigations to the Spectre vulnerabilities (side-channel exfiltration of results of speculative execution). <a href="https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886">Retpolines</a>, <a href="https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/">poisons and masks</a>, et cetera: none of these are <i>proven</i> to work. They are simply <i>observed</i> to be effective on current hardware. Indeed mitigations are anathema to the correctness-by-construction: if you can prove that a problem doesn't exist, what is there to mitigate?</p><p>Spectre is not the first crack in the edifice of practical program correctness. In particular, <a href="https://wingolog.org/archives/2014/12/02/there-are-no-good-constant-time-data-structures">timing side channels</a> are rarely captured in language semantics. But I think it's fair to say that Spectre is the most devastating vulnerability in the langsec approach to security that has ever been uncovered.</p><p>Where do we go from here? I see but two options. One is to attempt to make the behavior of the machines targetted by secure language implementations behave rigorously as architecturally specified, and in no other way. This is the approach taken by all of the deployed mitigations (retpolines, poisoned pointers, masked accesses): modify the compiler and runtime to prevent the CPU from speculating through vulnerable indirect branches (prevent speculative execution), or from using fetched values in further speculative fetches (prevent this particular side channel). I think we are missing a model and a proof that these mitigations restore target architectural semantics, though.</p><p>However if we did have a model of what a CPU does, we have another opportunity, which is to incorporate that model in a semantics of the target language of a compiler (e.g. micro-x86 versus x86). It could be that this model produces a co-evolution of the target architectures as well, whereby Intel decides to disclose and expose more of its microarchitecture to user code. Cacheing and other microarchitectural side-effects would then become explicit rather than transparent.</p><p>Rich Hickey has this thing where he talks about "simple versus easy". Both of them sound good but for him, only "simple" is good whereas "easy" is bad. It's the sort of subjective distinction that can lead to an endless string of <a href="https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf">Worse Is Better Is Worse</a> Bourbaki papers, according to the perspective of the author. Anyway transparent caching in the CPU has been marvelously easy for most application developers and fantastically beneficial from a performance perspective. People needing constant-time operations have complained, of course, but that kind of person always complains. Could it be, though, that actually there is some other, better-is-better kind of simplicity that should replace the all-pervasive, now-treacherous transparent cacheing?</p><p>I don't know. All I will say is that an ad-hoc approach to determining which branches and loads are safe and which are not is not a plan that inspires confidence. Godspeed to the langsec faithful in these dark times.</p></div>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:44:02 +0000Classic Programmer Paintings: “RHEL System Administrators entering the Docker...http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169578560497http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169578560497
<img src="http://78.media.tumblr.com/6ddfe5bd91468ecc00c5fbdd1790f81a/tumblr_p28zmm4hE21ugyavxo1_500.jpg" /><br /><br /><p>“RHEL System Administrators entering the Docker convention"</p>
<p>Konstantin Savitsky</p>
<p>oil on canvas</p>
<p>1882</p><p>(collaboration from Guillaume)<br /></p>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:30:40 +0000URBANIAHOEVE / Social Design Lab for Urban Agriculture: Naadijs in het Urbaniahoeve voedselbos / Needle ice and frostheave on the food forest path. 2018 Jaarcursus Stedelijke Voedselbosbouw : Za 13 januari: oriëntatie middag voor de feb 2018 jaarcursus. rsvp: info@urbaniahoeve.nl #naaldijs #needleice #Urbaniahoeve #foodforest #voedselbos #Amsterdam #cursus #permaculture #permacultuur #agroecology #oriëntatie #DemoGarden #DemoTuinNoord #forestgarden #bilingual Zeg het voort / Spread the wordhttp://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/?p=2106http://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/2018/01/naadijs-in-het-urbaniahoeve-voedselbos-needle-ice-and-frostheave-on-the-food-forest-path-2018-jaarcursus-stedelijke-voedselbosbouw-za-13-januari-orientatie-middag-voor-de-feb-2018-jaarcursus-rs/
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<div>Urbaniahoeve in images</div>
</div>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:43:27 +0000URBANIAHOEVE / Social Design Lab for Urban Agriculture: Naadijs in het Urbaniahoeve voedselbos / Needle ice and frostheave on the food forest path. 2018 Jaarcursus Stedelijke Voedselbosbouw : Za 13 januari: oriëntatie middag voor de feb 2018 jaarcursus. rsvp: info@urbaniahoeve.nl #naaldijs #needleice #Urbaniahoeve #foodforest #voedselbos #Amsterdam #cursus #permaculture #permacultuur #agroecology #oriëntatie #DemoGarden #DemoTuinNoord #forestgarden #bilingual Zeg het voort / Spread the wordhttp://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/?p=2105http://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/2018/01/naadijs-in-het-urbaniahoeve-voedselbos-needle-ice-and-frostheave-on-the-food-forest-path-2018-jaarcursus-stedelijke-voedselbosbouw-za-13-januari-orientatie-middag-voor-de-feb-2018-jaarcursus-rs/
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<div>Urbaniahoeve in images</div>
</div>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:43:27 +0000Classic Programmer Paintings: “The summer internship”
Konstantin Savitsky
painting on...http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169540898148http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169540898148
<img src="http://78.media.tumblr.com/e527f322e108dc077800049c7daad5dc/tumblr_p28zoj4tha1ugyavxo1_500.jpg" /><br /><br /><p>“The summer internship”</p>
<p>Konstantin Savitsky</p>
<p>painting on canvas</p>
<p>1872</p><p>(collaboration from Guillaume)<br /></p>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:30:50 +0000Classic Programmer Paintings: “Senior Developer and intern commiserating over outdated...http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169502852126http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169502852126
<img src="http://78.media.tumblr.com/630171ff6e5746eb6747bf2e2a027abd/tumblr_p16deicjAy1ugyavxo1_500.jpg" /><br /><br /><p>“Senior Developer and intern commiserating over outdated documentation”</p>
<p>Sandro Botticelli<br />
Tempera on panel<br />
1480</p>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:30:32 +0000URBANIAHOEVE / Social Design Lab for Urban Agriculture: 2018 Jaarcursus Stedelijke Voedselbosbouw Za 13 januari: oriëntatie middag voor de feb 2018 jaarcursus. Geïnteresseerden. welkom. 13.00u (stipt) t/m 15.30u Berberisstraat 16, 1032 EL Amsterdam rsvp: info@urbaniahoeve.nl #Urbaniahoeve #foodforest #voedselbos #Amsterdam #cursus #permaculture #permacultuur #agroecology #oriëntatie #DemoGarden #DemoTuinNoord #forestgarden #bilingual Zeg het voort / Spread the wordhttp://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/?p=2102http://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/2018/01/2018-jaarcursus-stedelijke-voedselbosbouw-za-13-januari-orientatie-middag-voor-de-feb-2018-jaarcursus-geinteresseerden-welkom-13-00u-stipt-tm-15-30u-berberisstraat-16-1032-el-amsterdam-rsvp-i-2/
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<div>Urbaniahoeve in images</div>
</div>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:55:12 +0000URBANIAHOEVE / Social Design Lab for Urban Agriculture: 2018 Jaarcursus Stedelijke Voedselbosbouw Za 13 januari: oriëntatie middag voor de feb 2018 jaarcursus. Geïnteresseerden. welkom. 13.00u (stipt) t/m 15.30u Berberisstraat 16, 1032 EL Amsterdam rsvp: info@urbaniahoeve.nl #Urbaniahoeve #foodforest #voedselbos #Amsterdam #cursus #permaculture #permacultuur #agroecology #oriëntatie #DemoGarden #DemoTuinNoord #forestgarden #bilingual Zeg het voort / Spread the wordhttp://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/?p=2100http://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/2018/01/2018-jaarcursus-stedelijke-voedselbosbouw-za-13-januari-orientatie-middag-voor-de-feb-2018-jaarcursus-geinteresseerden-welkom-13-00u-stipt-tm-15-30u-berberisstraat-16-1032-el-amsterdam-rsvp-i/
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<div>Urbaniahoeve in images</div>
</div>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:55:08 +0000Classic Programmer Paintings: “Cryptocurrency investors attend promising...http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169469966514http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169469966514
<img src="http://78.media.tumblr.com/700c5e4a48ca1d7d5c8664eac0e14354/tumblr_p28yfx1Ebp1ugyavxo1_500.jpg" /><br /><br /><p>“Cryptocurrency investors attend promising ICO”</p>
<p>Constantin Savitski</p>
<p>Oil on canvas</p>
<p>1878</p>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:25:30 +0000Data Knightmare (Italian podcast): DK 2x16 - Il Garante e Rousseauhttp://api.spreaker.com/episode/13746459http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-2x16
Qualche giorno fa il Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali ha pubblicato il proprio provvedimento riguardo a Rousseau, il cosiddetto "sistema operativo" del M5S, di cui mesi fa erano emerse numerose falle di sicurezza (v. 2x03 "Vieni avanti, cretino").
Leggiamo insieme cosa ha trovato il Garante e capiamo perché è sbagliato dire che è un problema di incompetenza informatica. Ah, e buon anno!Mon, 08 Jan 2018 07:48:11 +0000